Hoadly - BX5136 H6

of CONFORMITY. moment to this part of the Cade. The Petition for Faithful Labourers might have been put up, with as good a grace, and as great fincerity, without Your NewOrdination, as with them : And you Teem your felves to apply that Argu- ment only to fuch as had seen before called, andqualified, owned, andfucceeded. Granting all thefe Arguments their full force, and as much ftrength as You your felves imagine to be in them. They will not, in the leaf¢, vindicate the be- haviour of thofe amongfl You we are now (peaking of. And thus We fee, The greateft aggravations of the guilt of your filence, and thofe which you lay most weight upon, are of no confidera- tion in this point of your Praetice. There remain two of the Arguments here alleged, and thefe only can have any relation to it : The one, taken from the infulciencyoffundryofthe Parifh-Miniflers; and the other, from the neceties of the people in moll parts of the nation, notwith- 'landing the Legalprovifonfor them. The latter of thefe 1 cannot but acknowledge a fufficient ground for your Praaice, if it can be fairly and clearly made out ; and, l'm fur; it is the only Argument E 4 that 7t

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